deancoffman05 / midtermproject

ParkPals

Team members and roles:

• Cortnie - DBA, Developer
• Dean - Lead Designer, Developer
• Justin - Repository Owner, Developer
• Sam - Scrum Master 3000, Developer

Overview

A website where users can connect with each other through meetups at trails inside our wonderful national parks!

We created this web site to turn our love of national parks into a useful meeting place online. Turn those "cyber" hikes into "sight-bird" hikes!

Description

ParkPals allows registered users to create, join, unattend, or delete meetups with other users. Meetups allow users to display start and end times, descriptions, and a photo of the meetup. Users can also leave comments on meetups!

See a user who isn't your friend? Add them to your friends list!

Rest assured that when you delete a meetup, your data is safely deleted.^*

Visit ParkPals and register for an account today! It's free and takes only takes 48 seconds.

^*This is not true.

Technologies Used

• Spring Boot
• MySQL/MySQL Workbench
• Bootstrap
• Java
• Maven
• Agile workflow
• Git

Lessons Learned

Working on this project taught us how to apply technologies we've learned up until now into a real working application. It wasn't until we stumbled and hit a brick wall several times with several things that things started to make sense.

• Building a database from scratch and then using the Data Access Object design pattern to build methods to read and alter the database.

• Carrying data across different web pages with HttpSession, using the Java String Tag Library to display that data.

• Using git to manage our codebase and allow team members to quickly update changes to everyone's local repository.

On the frontend, we all learned much more about designing a web page's layout and functionality. The size and placement of text really makes a difference not when just trying to view data, but to make it visually appealing.

Most importantly, the project taught us how to work as a team through the entire process: design to final presentation.